Talk:Dining room

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Is there any unhappy thought from eating at a table and chair which is not defined as a dining room? Also we may want to mention that having a legendary dining room gives happy thoughts to nearly all dwarves. --Turgid Bolk 16:27, 2 November 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Extra tables/chairs in a dining room

How does this work? Say you make a grand communal hall/cafeteria. What I've found is that if I designate one table out of 20 as dining room, dwarves will ALWAYS prefer to eat at that specific table. Does the game not consider all the other tables/chairs within the designated room space as belonging to that dining room? I've thought about just having 20-odd overlapping rooms but I've read that'll decrease the value of the room(s). --Nunix 17:26, 21 February 2008 (EST)

Are they not eating at the other tables? Also, did you expand the dining room to the right size? --Strangething 04:38, 25 April 2008 (EDT)

I just started setting up my community dining room. At the moment, there are about seven throne/table pairs. I picked one table near the center, made it a dining room and expanded the range to cover the whole room, including the other tables. With only that, I am definitely seeing dwarves using _another_ table to eat at. In particular, they seem to be using the northernmost table... my guess is it's just top-to-bottom or left-to-right, or something like that. This is on v0.28.181.39d. --Mattmoss 23:52, 7 August 2008 (EDT)